Word: cater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Bank of Iran, set back from the street, needed an entire square. Slowly rising to completion is an Imperial Opera House to cater to the hitherto undiscovered musical tastes of Iran's citizens...
...intellectual calibre for university work, would be excluded. This latter category often has fine abilities along different lines, other than the academic, and should not be allowed to waste their ability in work for which they are not suited. Universities which must lower their academic standards, in order to cater to as large a group of tuition-paying students as possible, harm the best interests of education and their country's welfare...
Metcalf frankly recognized the tendency of the Library to cater to graduate students and officers engaged in research, but at the same time emphasized that undergraduates are always "welcome." He declared, however, that Freshmen are intentionally given library service at the Union to relieve congestion in Widener...
...than 7,000 members. Some of them date from the theological squabbles which attended the religious revivals of the early 19th Century. Some comfort their members with assurances that all the rest of the world is wrong, and will be painfully proved so by some spectacular, millennary cataclysm. Some cater to adepts of what Dr. David Starr Jordan called "sciosophy" ("systematized ignorance"). Out last week was a book about these teeming little sects, result of 15 years of study by Rev. Dr. Elmer Talmage Clark of Nashville. Tenn., secretary of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South...
...company does so much as half the total bubble gum business. Frank H. Fleer Corp. ("Bubble Bubble") and Gum, Inc., are each credited with about 30%, the Goudy Gum Co. of Boston with slightly less. The Fleer company is older and larger than Gum, Inc., but it does not cater exclusively to the penny gum trade...